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Knowing When To Exhale

I used to hold my breath a lot. I remember regularly noticing myself not breathing throughout the day, but instead holding-waiting. It took me years to develop this skill. When something challenging in life occurred, […] Read More

Getting Clear On What You Value Most

I’ve had some conversations recently about purpose and meaning. Most people want to hurry up and attempt to tackle the big presenting issue like, I hate my job, I’ve got to find a new (better) […] Read More

The Pikes Peak EPIC Adventure Life Project

I breathe in and count to five. I exhale slowly on the same rhythm, repeating until I feel my heart rate lower. I visualize myself on the windblown summit of Pikes Peak at 14,115 feet—52 […] Read More

How to Have Creativity Like A Drug Dealer

Growing up, my next door neighbor was a drug dealer. He’d smuggle his delivery from his house outside to his curbside customers in an old vacuum cleaner. They’d roll up, honk their horn and he’d […] Read More

An Open Letter To My Dying Friend

I have a friend who drives asleep at the wheel. His wife sees it, his friends watch and I know he used to acknowledge his chronic behavior. Fifteen years later I think he lives in […] Read More

And So The Story Goes

I’m flying over the Norwegian Sea returning home from another week in The Netherlands. I attended my second week of training to become a facilitator of transformation as part Aberkyn. I spent the week at […] Read More

Lessons From A Monastery

I’m listening to a rooster crow outside my window on this foggy morning in The Netherlands. The monastery I’m staying at has a daily rhythm giving continuity to each day, the rooster crows, the coffee […] Read More

It’s Time For a New Truth Over Your Life

In High School, I dumped dish soap in the fish tank in biology. I denied I had anything to do with the floating fish and suds. The principal later confided in me that I’d “never […] Read More

Action Equals Possibility

An inch forward creates three hundred and sixty degrees of new possibility. You don’t need all of the answers; you need to move forward. Study and research are useful-even imperative, but at some point, you […] Read More

How To Start Podcasting?

After six years of podcasting, 150+ episodes, I’ve learned a few things that I thought were worth sharing. Here is a conversation I had with a friend recently where I was giving her a download […] Read More

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